Poser 4

by Curious Labs, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005R4KY
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 3, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,222 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Poser 4 is a 3-D character animation and design tool for digital artists and animators. From a diverse collection of fully articulated 3-D human and animal models--and a library of settings and swappable clothing--you can create movies, images, and posed 3-D figures. With Poser's unique interface, posing and animating is fast and easy. Generate movies and 2-D graphics from posed models for content in Web, print, and video projects. Add life to 3-D worlds using exported, posed figures. For computer artists and hobbyists alike, Poser 4 generates dynamic, figure-based content while providing a valuable introduction to 3-D.

Product Description

Poser 4 is the ultimate 3D-character design and animation tool for artists and animators. Create 3D Figures using a diverse collection of ready-to-use 3D human and animal models. Poser's innovative interface makes figure design, posing, and animating fast and easy. Map facial photos, grow and style dynamic hair, and create dynamic cloth to add extraordinary realism to your figure. You can quickly output movies and images from your posed figures for content in Web, print, and video projects. Add life to your 3D worlds using exported, posed figures. For those new to 3D, digital artists and hobbyists alike, Poser 4 quickly generates fast and dynamic results that will leave you speechless. Poser 4 delivers powerful features in a single affordable, easy-to-use package. New highly accurate male, female, and children figures are all fully pose able and with photo-realistic textures. Poser 4 features mapped facial photos to add that personal touch to your figure. Part Number PSR-C41-DE-R.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Part of a Graphics Toolkit, August 8, 2002

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J. Clarkson "jaffle: graphics monkey" (Aldie, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poser 4 (CD-ROM)

Animal forms are difficult to draw. To someone not well versed in figure drawing (and I think that applies to most people) Poser is an extremely useful and powerful tool with a wide range of applications. It does human and animal figures and just about anything else you can imagine. As has been said before, the rendering quality is mediocre, but I would be hard pressed to fnd a situation where the render from Poser was not going to be taken a step further: given further treatment in a paint program or integrated into a scene rendered elsewhere.

I use Poser regularly as a part of the following suite of tools: Pandromeda's incredible landscape generator MojoWorld, Adobe Photoshop and Lightwave 7.5. Since I am a creative director with a huge background and exposure to different graphics tools, trust me on this! Lightwave and Photoshop are a little pricey, but the MojoWorld is [priced inexpensive] and really takes figures rendered in Poser to the next level. Too bad they don't bundle!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, January 9, 2002

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D. Cicala (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poser 4 (CD-ROM)

Simple on it's own, great when used with Corel's Bryce 5. Create models for export and add textures with Bryce. Cheap 3ds max alternative.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good 3D program, July 18, 2002

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Theodore Illenberg (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poser 4 (CD-ROM)

This is a good 3D program. But ,I think my version has some features missing. I bought it at a local university so I think I have the student version. I have learned a lot on my own by using this program. Much of the animation is painstating work. Sometimes you need to go frame by frame. I finally figured out how the magnets work. I wish they had a better means of sculpting these figures. I hope to purchase the full version of poser 5.

I finally realized that you can down load free figures and props off of the internet. I spent the last few days down loading many props. Now I can make more realistic images, I hope to purchase the Millenium Girls (Boys) figure. These charaters enable the user to create a wide variety of children characters. The children figures that come with Poser are very limited in what can be done to manipulate them. I plan to buy some adult figures that can be manipulated.

It is kind of frustrating that I have to buy extra figures instead of having them with the program (Of course You can download many figures and morphs and textures for free) But for the price Poser is relatively inexpensive and easy to use(The student version is even cheaper. I have made great progress in the past six months since I bought the program. I have not had any official instruction in 3D Modeling and animation except for a brief course in AutoCAD. I hope to take a 3D course next semester. I would love to have formal instruction on Poser.

You can create your own morph targets for you figures as well as make your own props , but these take advance skill and without formal instruction it can be difficult and frustrating. Props can be created in other programs such as Bryce and Lightwave (The class I will be taking uses Lightwave). The Poser Pro Pack is supose to enable the user to use Poser with these other programs. I was told that many computer artists use many different software programs using the stong points of each in combination.